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Show . WE STAND BY THE RECORD. Ou loudnj- ovoning tho church organ or-gan had u slor', apparent' from Washington, that told of tho publication publica-tion there of an interview on tho subject of the reported S3racusc" letter. The News, as usual, attributed that, lottor lo The 'Tribune, when it well knows that it was a letter front tho presidency of tho church. It is true that the copies of thai, letter which wc have soon do not contain tho rcf-ereuccs rcf-ereuccs to suspended ordinances thai, wero lo bo rovived, that wore reported as read at Syracuso and Spanish Fork. But wo bclievo that such reference was in tho letter; and wo havo given our reasons: first, bocauso we believe implicitly tho reports wo received; and second, beeiiuso the letter as furnished us appears to Have a hiatus, as it. directs di-rects that "members who, in conso-quenco conso-quenco of age. aro unfitted for mission-ar- service aitd at tho same time are unworth3' of being ordainod high priosts," should be dealt with "by the quorums" Uicnisolvos withdrawing fellowship fel-lowship from nil such jncu, after laboring la-boring with them without avail." How laboring with a man who in consequence of age is unfitted to become be-come a high priest is going to relieve him of that disability, we arc unable to discover; and must conclude that there- is a. serious omission in the letter as furnished to us. Otherwise, there is the only alternative that the bar-barit3 bar-barit3 is contemplated of disfcllow-shiping disfcllow-shiping a man merely because of tho infirmities of old age, that unfit him to bocomo a high priest; or, as the letter puts it. ' 'members who, in consequence con-sequence of age, aro unfitted for sorvico aud at tho same time aro unworthy of being ordained high priests.' But, because we (Iodine to accopt this barbarous treatment of men who have worn thcmsolves out in tho service of tho church, as the true meaning of that, letter, we aro denounced as perverse per-verse and as printing a fako charge. In all this matter wo arc quito willing will-ing to abide 03 tho record ns made; the letter as printed, (corrccth, our critics admit,) aud the comment we have made upon it. |